Forensic Chemistry Of Substanc A Guide to Drug Control
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Royal Society of Chemistry
Fr. 92.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.04.2009
Verlag
Royal Society of ChemistrySeitenzahl
276
Maße (L/B/H)
23.6/15.7/2 cm
Gewicht
567 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-85404-178-7
This book builds on an earlier publication by the same author: The Misuse of Drugs Act: A Guide for Forensic Scientists. It provides a chemical background to the domestic and international legal controls on drugs of abuse and related substances and includes coverage of 'designer drugs' and generic/analogue controls from the UK, US and New Zealand perspectives. The content of the book has been fully updated and rearranged and the scope has been considerably expanded. More general chapters cover the recent history of the drug classification debate and a proposal for consolidating a wide range of legal controls on chemical substances. An account is provided of the Early Warning System on 'New Psychoactive Substances' in operation in the European Union. Technical and subsidiary material is placed in 20 Appendices, which list controlled substances and cover topics such as: precursor chemicals, related legislation, sentencing guidelines and detailed chemical/pharmacological profiles of the most commonly-abused drugs. There is a glossary and a bibliography, while extensive footnotes support the text and provide references to selected publications and Internet sources. The most important features of the book include: * Up-to-date lists of controlled drugs with cross references to their status in UN treaties, and where appropriate, to controls in other countries * A history of drug classification in the UK * Designer drugs and generic/analogue definitions * Relevant changes to the UK Misuse of Drugs Act since 2002 * Candidate substances for future control * The future shape of 'substance' legislation * Explanation of nomenclatural and other technical difficulties * Detailed chemical/pharmacological profiles of the major drugs * Discussion of risk assessment and drug classification * More than 100 molecular structures * Forty-eight Tables The book contains a number of unique features, not found in any other single publication: * For the forensic scientist, the book contains a complete list of all drug substances controlled by UK and International law. It explains the chemical-structural definitions and the significance to the legislation of terms such as salt, base, stereoisomer, ester, ether, derivative, homologue and isotope * For the more general reader, there is an account of the history of domestic, European and International drugs control, the long debate about drug classification, the role of risk assessment and how the legal control of a wide range of harmful chemical substances might be consolidated * For the criminal lawyer, the book provides a useful adjunct to standard works on case and statute law This unique book has general appeal to anybody needing information on drugs of abuse including forensic scientists, researchers, teachers, criminal lawyers, customs officers, postgraduate and graduate students. It is of particular interest to those studying forensic science.
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